Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Bradford, Sarah
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Verkäufer Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, USA
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AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 20. März 2019
Beschreibung
Fine condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Illustrations; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Sources; Select Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and Family-Tree illustrated front and rear endpapers. "Queen Elizabeth II is the world's most famous and most powerful woman. For more than four decades she has ruled as monarch of Britain, protected by rings of courtiers whose task it is to burnish the image of the "family firm" and shield her from controversy. While Elizabeth and the other members of the House of Windsor are subject to ceaseless scrutiny, few people know the real truth about the royal family and the remarkable individual who heads it. To write Elizabeth - published on the occasion of the Queen's seventieth birthday - Sarah Brandford has spent a decade peering behind the Buckingham Palace facade, drawing on private archives and on her unprecedented access to the royal family to produce a uniquely intimate and revealing biography. Bradford has interviewed political figures, courtiers, Palace employees, and friends of the Queen - many of whom have never spoken publicly about her until now - to build up a portrait of Elizabeth as celebrity and symbol of British history, as executive and mother. In the course of her research, Bradford has uncovered extensive new private material about the Windsors, which throws fresh light on the family's many complex relationships and on the major crises in its history, such as the ill-fated affair between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend and the bitter public breakup of the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The British monarchy has undergone great changes since Elizabeth succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952, and the story of Elizabeth and her family is in many ways the story of those changes. Yet Elizabeth is not only a great family saga; it is an in-depth portrayal of a very private woman in her public and private roles. Sarah Bradford answers questions that have long been on royalty-watchers' minds: What is Elizabeth really like? How has she coped with the pressures of being an executive woman and the mother of four children? Has Elizabeth failed in her personal life while succeeding in her public role - and has her family's behaviour undermined her widely praised performance as Queen, jeopardizing the future of the monarchy itself? In this rich and candid biography, Sarah Bradford answers such questions with unrivaled insight and with a wealth of detail about the lives of Elizabeth and the other Windsors. Elizabeth is the most revealing portrait to date of the Queen and the family she heads." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003577
Bibliografische Details
Titel: Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the ...
Verlag: Key Porter Books, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
Auflage: 1st Edition
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